The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1983. Residential.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
odd-balcony-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
New Forest National Park
Constituency
New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 July 1983
Type
Residential
Address
The Cottage, Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley
OS grid reference
SU 162 104
Coordinates
50.89355, -1.77008
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is a house with a core dating back to the 17th century, though it is mainly from the 18th century. It features painted brick and timber-frame construction with brick infill, topped by a thatched roof. The building is 1½ stories high, with a two-bay section and a taller three-bay section. The front of the house has the taller part on the right-hand side. There is a plank door with a small window above it, sheltered by a hood supported on posts. The right-hand bays have two-light casement windows with segmental heads. A string course runs along the first floor, where there is also a two-light casement window. The lower bays feature two-light casements and a window located under the eaves in the center. Above the right-hand bay, there is a two-light casement window in the eaves, which has been raised to match the level of the taller section, as the roof slopes down towards the left-hand side. The roof is half-hipped, with the ridge sweeping down to the lower part, and there are ridge stacks at each end.

Local climate

The Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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